Should have gave them crap and say "the lights were smoking." Glad to see them doing a great fast job. Cant wait to see parts being made. I dont shoot f class but will probly buy a tuner once they start flooding the market. This will be a game changer for the whole family. Stay awesome and keep pushing.
Breath deep young man breath deep, I'll bet you are so happy and relieved. Pumping parts out is just around the corner congratulations Eric ....following
It has been a long time a coming but it is almost finished. I'm happy for you. Next year you will look back and laugh about all this. Congratulations. Look forward to all those secret parts you have teased us with -- lol
Just a comment for the people waiting for a tuner-brake. For me, it was well worth the wait. Made my RPR go from 1/2 MOA groups to Ragged hole groups at 100 yards. Nice product Erik, thanks.
Wow! You are installing some serious equipment! Electricians are amazing people. Everything is looking great, keep pushing through, you are going to make it across the finish line. On a side note...I read one time where a home owner was putting in a new circuit breaker in the box, had a screw driver in one hand, breaker in the other, the phone in his pocket on vibrate and then he got a phone call just about the time he was tighten the screw down. Screw driver went through the window!
Very exciting. I curious by nature on cost. Are you going to do a video on what everything cost? This has been a good series. Drama, the unknown, relief, stress, action, educational. Everything you need in a series. 😃😉👍🏻
Actually you would be amazed by the small amounts of concrete and rebar. I am a journeyman subtech and build substations setting hundreds of big transformers. For a 155,000 lbs transformer we only did 12 inch thick concrete with 2 layers of rebar. 4500 mix with test breaks at 7,14,21,28 days before the tranny is set. Usually set by a jack and slide but occasionally by crane.
Thnx for the update. By the time you're up and running, i'll be ordering my first EC Tuner. It should be fun seeing how well i can get factory ammo to shoot. Could have used it today dealing with the wind at Ben Avery. Good to see you with a non-stressed smile on your face, Congrats!
This isn't even my project, but excited to see the updates like it is. ha ha When you were filling the trench, I wishing I could travel down there from Indiana just to help by filling in the trench for you so you could work on something else.
Hi Erik Well done Mate your your nearly there I’m sure you will be happy to see the end of the power guys so you can start turning out tuners at full speed , as soon as you catch up on production I will place my order for 3 tuner breaks I can’t wait to have the puppies on my rifles all the best . Steve from Australia .
Good to see you smiling. Congratulations on jumping thru the hoops with the POWER company. When you get your other lathe going and a good welder you'll be covered with job requests lol.
thats a LOT of 3 phase for that small of a shop. hopefully youll have more buildings. I have 13 machines running on a 200 A service, thats with a 30hp screw compressor and a bunch of 50 taper machines.
When I built my house I had to run some of the power cable about 300 feet from the post to my house. Heavy and hard to snake so we would slip it into individual pieces of pipe for opposite ends as we laid it in the trench. What a pain, but lots of amps.
Make sure to grab a leg with one hand and the other holding a ground rod! 🤣 It won't hurt long... Pushing 500 MCM copper is how I destroyed my neck and shoulders!
Back in my Brown and Root days I watched electricians shoot "birdies" through conduit with compressed air with a pull string attached to the birdie. Then a stronger pull tape was attached and plenty of lube. They called them birdies because they were shaped like a badminton birdy.
Love it! Ready for my black "Easy Tuner/Brake", when you get to em. Glad to have a prototype or a piece from the pre-production run. Your seconds beat most folks premium product...just saying.
"Four hundred" refers to the size of the cable. It is a measurement of the cross sectional area of the cable. The unit is "kilo-circular mils", or "kcmil", or "MCM" which is an archaic expression. One kcmil = 0.5067 square millimeters, so "400" is a cable with a cross sectional area of 400 x 0.5067 = 202.68 sq millimeters, or 0.314 sq in. Ironically, that number is pi ÷ 10. I don't think that is a coincidence.
From my experience with most all the electrical companies in the San Antonio area FELPS is the best Because it is FELPS you were able to get 400 amps all the rest would have done a survey of your full load and gave you a precent of that And when you expanded you would have to go through this all over again My shop has expanded and I have CPS and most days we have to run only some machines And run other’s on second shift we could run one shift if we could get more power Like I say “ we are in Manufactering desert land” I hope the power problems we had in February will get state and federal help to fix are power grid the President said he wants to improve infrastructure let see Like good shooting don’t hold your breath
Fished a lot of wires before I retired. Pulled an entire elementary school security with no helper except for the very last, worst pull. Ever pulled wire by yourself? You go from one ladder to the next for 3-5 feet of progress.
I honestly thought that for as much headache as you were going through, that this was gonna be a 480Y setup, I'm a little surprised you did all this just for 208...
I didn't hear what amperage the main panel/service would be, but I'm also surprised it isn't 480 and that they ran double wire that size for such a small building.......unless he plans to pack it completely full of large machines and run them all at the same time.
Great having your power Finally connected to the building. Seems this part dragged on longer than anything else. I am guessing the machine was Ordered, Built, Shipped Delivered and Installed and still NO power, LOL.